It was, Victoria Gonzalez admitted, her first time in a canoe, despite being of the ripe old age of 9 and living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But what made this paddle even more special for the Duluth ...

After my wife and I went canoeing up in northern Minnesota a few months ago—on a lake near the town of Ely, where we had gone to visit the giant neutrino detector of the Soudan Underground Mine State ...

SNOW HILL, Md. (AP) -- When Barry Laws started the Pocomoke River Canoe Co. 30 years ago on the banks of the Pocomoke River, he didn't have a kayak in his fleet. Canoes were the only way to paddle up ...

Dale Kicker's idea of building a better, more durable canoe paddle started with high hopes in a lowly two-car garage in North St. Paul in 1982. His angle: Add a piece of nearly indestructible urethane ...

Master canoe-builder Al Gustaveson has a new wish. “I want to paddle more canoes than I build,” says the owner of Northwest Canoe Co. in St. Paul’s Lowertown. “I’ve been building boats since 1977.

“When we started out, we didn’t know a thing about woodworking”, Todd Randall says as he switches on a table saw and dons some ear protection. “We learned as we went and got a lot of advice from our ...